The Red Army retook Minsk, leaving the path through Belarus and into Poland open of urban obstacles. It had been occupied by the Germans since June 28, 1941, which means that the Wehrmacht in Barbarossa had taken it in an amazingly short amount of time.
German forces that had been defending Minsk were now trapped east of the city, a bad place to be.
Gen. Georg Lindemann was relieved as commander of Army Group North and replaced with Johannes Frießner.
Lindemann would not be returned to service until February 1945, when he was placed in command of German troops in Denmark. Frießner would go into retirement, after being relieved from a subsequent assignment, in December 1945. After the war, he was an apologist for the German war effort and the Waffen SS, but did advise West Germany in regard to the creation of the Bundesheer.
The US 1st Army launched an offensive with the goal of establishing a new line from Coutances to St. Lo.
Sixty-six American servicemen of the 130th Chemical Processing Company were killed by a V-1 drone at Chelsea, the largest loss of US life from a V-1. Nine civilians were also killed.
The French took Siena, Italy. Well. . . French and Moroccans. The British took Cortona.
The Germans launched the Emergency Fighter Program (Jägernotprogramm),
U.S. Paratroopers took Kamiriz Airfield on Numfoor, but with heavy casualties.
Airborne drops in the Pacific and Asia are nearly forgotten.
The Allies prevailed in the Battle of Imphal.
The U-154 was sunk in the Atlantic by the U.S. Navy.
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